About Adas Israel
Adas Israel is an Orthodox congregation in Passaic, New Jersey, led by Rabbi Pinchas Novoseller. Whether you are a newcomer or a visitor, welcome. You will find a warm and welcoming kehilla here.
We are one of Passaic's oldest and most established shuls, with more than 200 member families. We have several minyanim every day, shiurim for adults, Shabbos morning youth groups and family social events throughout the year.
Rabbi Dr. Solomon Rybak
A Smicha graduate of Yeshiva University, Rabbi Rybak became the Congregation's spiritual leader in 1984 and led the kehilla for more than three decades.
A century in Passaic
From a storefront on Monroe Street to the Synagogue Center on Broadway, Adas Israel was the first Passaic congregation to move from the older part of town to the Third Ward.
- 1923Chevra Adath Israel holds its first services in a store on Monroe Street, the first synagogue in Passaic west of the Erie Railroad tracks.
- 1925The Congregation is incorporated on December 8. The papers are still in the vault.
- 1928High Holiday services are held for the first time in a new building at Tulip and Montgomery Streets, bought with pennies, nickels and dimes.
- 1937Local clothing contractors lead the drive to complete the upper stories of the Tulip Street shul.
- 1938Rabbi Leon Katz, a Yeshiva University musmach, becomes the first rabbi. He founds the Tifereth Tzvi Hebrew School and serves for 46 years.
- 1947The mortgage on the Tulip Street synagogue is burned.
- 1950As the community shifts to the Third Ward, a house at 316 Van Houten Avenue becomes a second shul and school.
- 1955The Congregation buys 565 to 573 Broadway on May 29.
- 1957Ground is broken on May 5 for the Synagogue Center, built together with the Hillel Academy day school.
- 1958The first Selichos are said at midnight on September 6 in the unfinished sanctuary. The cornerstone is laid October 12.
- 1959The building is dedicated over the weekend of September 18 to 20.
- 1966The Louis and Fannie Simkin Beth Midrash is dedicated on September 25.
- 1969The Tulip Street shul is sold and the parking lot next to the Broadway building is acquired.
- 1971The stained glass windows are installed on May 2, completing the building.
- 1984Rabbi Katz retires as Rabbi Emeritus. Rabbi Dr. Solomon F. Rybak is appointed.
- 2020The Adas Sfard and Adas Ashkenaz minyanim merge into one kehilla, now led by Rabbi Pinchas Novoseller.
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